Formatting External Hard Drive

ICEx21

ICEx21

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Alright people, after getting some advice from members in here I recently purchased an ICY Box and 500gig Seagate Barracuda drive for backup purposes. Now the problem I'm getting is for some reason the system won't recognise the hard drive and I think I may need to format it. I use windows vista and everytime I go in to the bit where I'm supposed to have an option to format it nothing appears.
It just says unrecognised drive or something along those lines (at work so cant check the exact error message).
Is this a problem that any of you have experianced?
 
The reason I got the drive was because it would be a major hassle trying to get to the SATA ports in my case as my graphics card is just above them and the ide port. Is it possible to format it on a different computer and do it that way?
 
Don't think I initiliased the disk so I'll check that asap as soon as I get home.
I'm sure it was so much easier last time when I did this to my internal drive.
 
Hey peepz thanks for the previous help but I've just managed to try out your suggestions now and for some reason it still won't display.

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Thats what happens when I try and click on it. Anyone got any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
 
yup got them all installed and still nothing. It's really frustrating the hell outta me as I don't get whats wrong :S
 
I've finally managed to get time to do what you advised mate, and unfortunately it's the same crappy problem.
Does this mean the drives buggered or have I missed a blatantly obvious step?
 
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